Best function & information Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.”

Mind Humans Two Literature Perfect Creativity Information Creation Fool Personality Conscious Function Deeper Surface Human Mind Two Personalities

Author:E. M. Forster

“We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.”

Trying Seems Talking Our Lives Information Communication Messages Function Our Time Urgent Exchanging Sending A Message

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt for new states of things, situations never seen before, for the improbable, for information.”

States Situation Information Photography Function Cameras Photographer Hunts Improbable Indivisible

Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.”

Giving I Can Literature Can Do Views Pieces Information Judgment Function Journalist

Author:Jim Lehrer

“as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.”

Made Information Office Function Setting Settings Speakers Parliament Request

Book:The House of Commons at Work

Source: The House of Commons at Work

“Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.”

Use Poetry Literature Records Information Argument Function Obvious Verses Historic Analytics

Author:George Steiner

“• As society rapidly changes, individuals will have to be able to function comfortably in a world that is always in flux. Knowledge will continue to increase at a dizzying rate. This means that a content-based curriculum, with a set body of information to be imparted to students, is entirely inappropriate as a means of preparing children for their adult roles.”

World Mean Children Body Able Individual Roles Information Students Adults Function Increase Rate Preparing Curriculum Inappropriate Flux

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.”

Information Function Investing Evaluate

Author:Merton Miller

“Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.”

Inspirational Wells May Motivational Animal Information Planets Function Critical Our Planet Dolphins Regeneration

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.”

“Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions aren't met, I can't outsource or partner with you because markets don't function in the absence of sufficient information.”

I Can Three Situation Conditions Information Taught Mets Capitalism Function Absence Partners Sufficient Efficient Taught Us Coordination

Author:Clayton Christensen

“Well, when people talk about interrogating terrorists, they're acting like this is some sort of law enforcement function. Law enforcement is about gathering evidence to take someone to trial, and convict them. Anti-terrorism is about finding out information to prevent a future attack so the same tactics do not apply.”

People Wells Law Acting Information Findings Evidence Function Terrorism Terrorist Trials Law Enforcement Enforcement Gathering Tactics Convicts Anti Terrorism

Author:Marco Rubio

“In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will enable the black people in the black community to see the fruits that they should be receiving from the politicians who are over them and, thereby, they are then able to determine whether or not the politician is really fulfilling his function.”

“Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.”

Government Democracy Impossible Information Function Access Operations Broads Citizenry Access To Information Informed Citizenry

Author:Ryan Shapiro

“I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.”

Thinking Information Tools Function Plus Volume Derivatives Overload Information Overload

Author:Paul Saffo

“As a function of the easy access to information provided by the Internet, and the ease with which it can be shared thanks to social media, consumers are now better informed as to the behavior of brands and the multiple global crises we face.”

Faces Social Easy Media Information Internet Behavior Function Crisis Social Media Access Thanks Brands Consumers Ease Multiple Access To Information Easy Access

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.”

May Different Reading Information Masters Function Forgotten Sparks Unforeseen Lexicon Metaphoric

Book:Diary of a Bad Year

Source: Diary of a Bad Year

“And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.”

Philosophy Reality Individual Information Fields Function Physics Quantum Quantum Physics Exchanging

Author:Timothy Leary

“It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and ... a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services.”

Thinking Years Seems Together Science Individual Lines Information Communication Band Function Library Connected Wide Reasonable Users Wire Present Day Storage

Book:In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990

Source: In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990

“When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I'm trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It's a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e.g. "I was attacked by a bear!" to "Goddamn bear tried to kill me!" to "That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup upon my person!" and so on.”

Knows Way Writing Trying Wells Persons Different Whole Facts Stuff Information Bears Function Communicate Different Things Essays Kill Me Communicators Basic Things Juggernaut

Author:David Foster Wallace

“The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and information. It is a haven of privacy, a source of both cultural and intellectual sustenance for the individual reader. Since it is thus committed to free and open inquiry on a personal basis, the Library must remain open, with access to it always guaranteed.”

“When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to continue to help them see it in those terms to describe our larger purposes. We must assert that libraries are central to the quality of life in our society; that libraries have a direct role in preserving democratic freedoms. Free access to information and the opportunity of every individual to improve his or her mind, employment prospects, and lifestyle are fundamental rights in our society.”

“Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.”

Language Information Function Translations Transmit Hallmark

Book:Illuminations

Source: Illuminations

“Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.”

Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

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